The stance here is uncompromising: even severe illness does not erase human dignity.
A person may lose function, clarity, or control, but still remains more than a malfunctioning mechanism.
This credo is not sentimentality. It is an ethical foundation for treatment: you cannot heal what you refuse to respect as human.
It insists on a boundary: medicine must not become an excuse to dehumanize. Otherwise it repeats, in softer form, the same violence.